Since 1962 the band was composed by John Lennon (guitar/vocals), Paul McCartney (bass/vocals), George Harrison (guitar/vocals) and Ringo Starr (drums/vocals).
Initially, the first band formation were John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Stuart Sutcliffe (bass) and Pete Best (drums).
Their status and recognition made them being commonly refereed about their phenomenon on the press as "Beatlemania".
The first Beatles hit success was "Love Me Do" beginning in this way, one of the most talked bands until nowadays.
On their first years, The Beatles built their reputation on Liverpool and Hamburg pubs. But during that time, in 1961, Pete Best decided to leave the band and he was replaced by Ringo Starr on the next year.
The band work intensively until 1966, break up in 1970. Each member pursuit a solo career. John Lennon was killed in 1980 by a fan and George Harrison died of cancer in 2001. Only McCartney and Starr are still alive and working.
The critics consider their album "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" has one of the best Beatles album and is usually referred as a master piece.
They were honored with 8 Grammy Awards and 15 Ivor Novello Awards. They are part of Time's Magazine Top List of the 100 most influence people from the XX Century.
With 13 released albums: Please Please Me (1963), With the Beatles (1963), A Hard Day's Night (1964), Beatles for Sale (1964), Help! (1965), Rubber Soul (1965), Revolver (1966), Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967), Magical Mystery Tour (1967), The Beatles [also known as "White Album"] (1968), Yellow Submarine (1969), Abbey Road (1969) and Let It Be (1970), besides several compilations and re-releases.
Paperback Writer appears the side A from the single "Rain", later appearing on some The Beatles compilations like Hey Jude or The Beatles 1962-1966.
Paperback Writer was written by McCartney/Lennon but the original idea was from McCartney and it's one of the few songs that don't talk about love, but "a letter from an aspiring author addressed to a publisher. The author badly needs a job and has written a paperback version of a book by a "man named Lear." (...) a reference to the Victorian painter Edward Lear, who wrote nonsense poems and songs of which Lennon was very fond (though Lear never wrote novels)." as we can see on wikipedia.
There are several theories about it, one is that McCartney got an inspiration from a letter sent by a fan, there is also another mention revealed by Paul himself on an interview in 2007: "recalled that he wrote the song after reading in the Daily Mail about an aspiring author". The Daily Mail was usually read by John Lennon and it was possible to find many copies at his home, where he and McCartney wrote their songs.
"It's a dirty story of a dirty man
And his clinging wife doesn't understand
His son is working for the daily mail
It's a steady job, but he wants to be a paperback writer"
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